He. Murdered. His. Dad.

And Lucas was heavily involved!

He collaborated with Filoni and they made great music together.

This looks so much more enjoyable than Joker. I’ve had root canals that were more enjoyable than Joker, so it’s a pretty low bar, but still.

Um, okay. How about this: Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a golden retriever, or something.

We already have a sexy reimagining of Dracula:

February has been confirmed since D23 so that’s a pretty useless title. You guys must have crazy strict schedules to push out articles. I’ve been noticing that you don’t seem to have time for even cursory research anymore.

Well, maybe Brie Larson, since she’s smokin’.

On the two female character, I really liked Van Helsing, especially once I realized she was Van Helsing. For me, Van Helsing is a crucial character of the Dracula mythos, not just due to his role in the story, but also what he represents against Dracula. It is a story of a mortal defeating the darkness with the power…

The fact that this felt more like a regular premiere than a holiday special was because it *was* a regular premiere and not a holiday special - it just happened to fall on a holiday. I agree my mind kept expecting it to be big in the Christmas/New Year special of old style but that’s on us - they made it clear there…

The reason this show works and the Sequel Trilogy doesn’t is simple:

THANK YOU. Something all of these criticisms have yet to address is what exactly TLJ was saying that was bold and new. What is being said that wasn’t either implicit in other films or explicit in the extended media? Where, exactly, could this story go that would appease this need for subverted expectations and no fan…

I also find that very odd- TLJ is a competently directed movie. no disputing that. it is also not a tremendously well plotted or written movie.

Rey and Kylo- as you say- tease this idea they might ‘break the cycle’..... and then they don’t. they do at least grow as characters to some extent, so its a wash

Finn goes on…

Thank you! The real reason I hated The Last Jedi is that it ultimately didn’t take the overarching story in any real direction. For everyone’s talk of how much it changed things, the state of our main characters was largely unchanged by the end of the movie. Kylo Ren was bad, Rey had no teacher, Finn had a reason to…

Yeah, my issue with TLJ all along is that it has some really terrific moments—including one, the throne room scene, that’s among the very best in the franchise—but they never cohered into a fascinating movie, and the whole thing ended up being just an interesting mess.

But in this case, it’s also a dig at its predecessor, a repudiation of Johnson’s attempt to break free of the past and take the narrative in a new direction

Then why the hell do you keep watching? Just to come in here and complain? I mean, I gave up on American Horror Story years ago, I don’t waste my time watching it just so I can go into their talkbacks and tell everyone they’re wrong.

lol.

As a character she was just fine, but yest that whole B-plot was soooo stupid. And it relied on them all acting really stupid. But that wasn’t her fault and I would’ve been fine with her playing a major role in a non-spacehorse related plot.

Yeah, it’s pretty clearly “Let’s spend 5 hours recreating fun, pulpy, 40s, 50s and 60s schlock, with incredible execution.”

Thank you. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I hear people talk about how “subversive” The Last Jedi was. Like, it’s the same damn movie as all the others! I don’t dislike it because it’s different, I dislike it because it’s the same played-out formula they’ve been drip-feeding people since the 80's but they…